The vortex : a true story of history's deadliest storm, an unspeakable war, and liberation / Scott Carney and Jason Miklian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carney, Scott, 1978- author.

Miklian, Jason, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyclones--Social aspects--Bangladesh.

Cyclones.

Cyclones--Social aspects--Pakistan.

Cyclones--Social aspects.

Pakistan--Politics and government--1947-1971.

Pakistan.

Politics and government.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

xxii, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

This fast-paced, meticulously detailed book tells the story of the Great Bhola Cyclone, the deadliest storm in modern history, which killed 500,000 people in Pakistan, and its aftermath as told through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it.

November 1970. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill 500,000 people and begin a chain reaction of turmoil, genocide, and war. The cyclone made landfall when Pakistan was on the brink of a historic election. The fallout ignited a conflagration of political intrigue, corruption, violence, idealism, and bravery that played out in the lives of tens of millions of Bangladeshis. Carney and Miklian take us deep into the cyclone and its aftermath, told through the eyes of the men and women who lived through it, including the infamous president of Pakistan, General Yahya Khan, and his close friend Richard Nixon. The storm ripped Pakistan in two-- and led the world to the brink of nuclear war. -- adapted from jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ACT I THE VORTEX

1. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

2. Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan

3. Candy Rohde

4. Yahya Khan

5. Neil Frank

6. Yahya Khan and General Rani

7. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

8. Mohammad Hai

9. Candy Rohde

10. Mohammad Hai

11. Candy Rohde

12. Mohammad Hai

13. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

14. Yahya Khan

15. Candy Rohde

16. Neil Frank

17. Mohammad Hai

18. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad and Yahya Khan

19. Candy Rohde

20. Mohammad Hai

21. Jon Rohde, Mohammad Hai, and Candy Rohde

22. Neil Frank

23. Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

24. Mohammad Hai and Yahya Khan

Intermission: Yahya Khan and Tikka Khan

ACT II OPERATION SEARCHLIGHT

25. Yahya Khan

26. Mohammad Hai and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

27. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

28. Tikka Khan

29. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

30. Yahya Khan, Tikka Khan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

31. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde

32. Yahya Khan and Tikka Khan

33. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde

34. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

35. Candy Rohde, Jon Rohde, and Richard Nixon

36. Mohammad Hai

37. Yahya Khan, Tikka Khan, and A. A. K. Niazi

38. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad and Mohammad Hai

39. Candy Rohde

40. Yahya Khan and Henry Kissinger

41. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

Musical Interlude: Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger

ACT III THE RECKONING

42. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

43. Mohammad Hai

44. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde

45. A. A. K. Niazi and Tikka Khan

46. Mohammad Hai and Malik Mahmud

47. Yahya Khan and Richard Nixon

48. A. A. K. Niazi and Yayha Khan

49. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

50. Yahya Khan and Richard Nixon

51. Captain Ernest Tissot and Rear Admiral Vladimir Kruglyakov

52. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Yahya Khan, and Henry Kissinger

53. Richard Nixon

54. A. A K. Niazi and Yahya Khan

55. Rear Admiral Kruglyakov and Richard Nixon

56. A. A. K. Niazi, Richard Nixon, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

57. Mohammad Hai and Malik Mahmud

58. Candy Rohde and Jon Rohde

59. Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

60. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

61. Hafiz Uddin Ahmad

62. Mohammad Hai and Malik Mahmud

63. Neil Frank

64. Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-479) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780062985415

0062985418

OCLC:

1304903239

Publisher Number:

99990509198